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Provost

A person who is appointed to superintend or preside over something the chief magistrate in some cities and towns as the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow answering to the mayor of

Recognizance

An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized with condition to do some particular act as to appear at the same or some other

VerbarSheik

The head of an Arab family or of a clan or a tribe also the chief magistrate of an Arab village The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade

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Abarnare

or convicted thief; 'bere morth, a detected homicide. Also to detect and discover any acret crime to a magistrate, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England; Leg. Canuti, c. 104. Abarnare, means to detect or disclose a secret

Abdication

Abdication, where a magistrate or person in office voluntarily renounces or gives it up. It differs from resignation, in that resignation is

Exercisible

Capable of being exercised employed or enforced as the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction

Duumvir

One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions

Affidavit

understood to mean a sworn statement in wiring made especially under oath or on affirmation before an authorised Magistrate or Officer. Affidavit has been defined in sub-clause (3) of s. 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897

master

by performing various related functions NOTE: Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a master may be a magistrate or else may be a person with some special expertise in the matter. The word master as used

affidavit

affiant ] : a sworn statement in writing made esp. under oath or on affirmation before an authorized magistrate or officer compare deposition, examination

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